Irene Jessica Pickett

1936 - 2017

Irene Jessica Pickett obituary, 1936-2017, Tuscaloosa, AL

BORN

1936

DIED

2017

FUNERAL HOME

Striffler-Hamby Mortuary

4071 Macon Road

Columbus, Georgia

Irene Pickett Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on May 19, 2017.

Irene J. Pickett (Dalton), age 80, of Tuscaloosa, AL and former long-time resident of Columbus, GA, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer on Monday, May 15, 2017 at Moundville Health and Rehabilitation. A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 7 p.m., in Edgewood Hall of Striffler-Hamby, 4071 Macon Road, Columbus, GA. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the Mill Room of Striffler-Hamby. Private graveside services will be held at Main Post Cemetery, Fort Benning, Georgia the following morning. Irene, daughter of the late William Harold Dalton and Helen Elizabeth Davis Dalton, was born June 11, 1936 in Methuen, Massachusetts. Irene attended Fisher Junior College and the University of Massachusetts where she met her husband, the late Col. Alan B. Pickett, D.D.S. During the early years of their marriage, Irene worked for Western Electric to pay her husbands way through Dental School. Soon after, Irene became a devoted U.S. Army wife and mother, where she moved around the United States and Europe where her husband's work as a military officer took her and her family. In 1985, Dr. And Mrs. Pickett retired and returned to Columbus, GA. During their retirement years, Irene enjoyed quilting, camping, reading, china painting, and volunteering at Callaway Gardens. She was preceded in her death by her husband, father, mother and brother, William Harold Dalton and survived by her son, Alan John Pickett and his wife Ann of Richmond, Virginia; daughter, Karen Alaine Webb of Tuscaloosa, Al; sister-in-law, Joy Dalton; sister-in-law, Linda and her husband Dr. James Kelley; and her grandchildren, John Dalton Pickett, Kailyn Jessica Webb, and Samuel Hays Webb. In lieu of flowers the family has requested donations be made in honor of Irene to the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org.

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May 23, 2017

To the Pickett family keep hoping in God and he will strengthen you during this most difficult time. Psalms 119:28

May 21, 2017

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Extending sympathy to the family and friends on the loss of your loved one. God's holy spirit, or active force, can equip you with power beyond what is normal to go from one day to the next. (2 Corinthians 4:7)

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May

25

Visitation

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Striffler-Hamby Mortuary

4071 Macon Road, Columbus, GA 31907

May

25

Memorial service

7:00 p.m.

Striffler-Hamby Mortuary

4071 Macon Road, Columbus, GA 31907

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4071 Macon Road, Columbus, GA 31907

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